Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 26 Issue 1

Data-driven failure analysis of emergency shutdown systems in oil and gas industry: Evaluation of detectability from failure progression perspective

Pengyu Zhu, Jayantha Liyanage, Simon Jeeves

Emergency shutdown (ESD) systems play a critical role in ensuring safety and availability of oil and gas production. The systems are operated in on-demand mode, and the detection…

Ranking of maintenance wastes present in Indian organizations (a statistical analysis)

Sandeep Phogat, Anil Kumar Gupta

The maintenance department of today, like many other departments, is under sustained pressure to slash costs, show outcome and to support the assignments of the organization, as…

Outsourcing of aviation technical services – a literature survey

Jukka Holkeri

The outsourcing of maintenance and other technical services is a growing trend and phenomenon in both military and civil aviation. The purpose of this paper is to characterize and…

Forecasting spare parts demand using condition monitoring information

Nzita Alain Lelo, P. Stephan Heyns, Johann Wannenburg

The control of an inventory where spare parts demand is infrequent has always been difficult to manage because of the randomness of the demand, as well as the existence of a large…

Development of a model for maintenance performance measurement: A case study of a gas terminal

Sungtae Ku, Changeun Kim

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that can measure the equipment maintenance performance of the energy company K-company.

Integrated reliability and maintainability analysis of Computerized Numerical Control Turning Center considering the effects of human and organizational factors

Rajkumar Bhimgonda Patil

Reliability, maintainability and availability of modern complex engineered systems are significantly affected by four basic systems or elements: hardware, software, organizational…

Analysis of manual data collection in maintenance context

Katrine Mahlamäki, Marko Nieminen

The purpose of this paper is to identify details of technological, organizational and people (TOP) factors affecting maintenance technicians’ use of computerized maintenance…

Intersection of corrosion prevention strategy and practice

Geoff Pond, Muhammad Ali Abdullah, Yves Turgeon

The purpose of this paper is to objectively evaluate the cost benefit of applying corrosion prevention coatings throughout a mid-life logistics fleet supporting the Canadian Army.

Development of opportunistic maintenance policy towards optimal maintenance system (OPTOMS) model: A case study

Hasnida Ab-Samat, Shahrul Kamaruddin

Opportunistic maintenance (OM) policy is a prospective maintenance approach that instigates for a more effective and optimized system. The purpose of this paper is to provide the…

Adaptive prediction model for effective electrical machine maintenance

Ganga D., Ramachandran V.

The purpose of this paper is to propose an optimal predictive model for the short-term forecast of real-time non-stationary machine variables by combining time series prediction…